بريمة

Arabic

Etymology

Variant of بِرِّينَة (birrīna), see it. Later reinterpreted as Egyptian Arabic tool noun from بَرَمَ (barama, to twist, to roll up etc.).

Root
ب ر م (b-r-m)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar.riː.ma/, /bir.riː.ma/

Noun

بَرِّيمة or بِرِّيمَة • (barrīma or birrīma) f (plural بَرَارِيم (barārīm))

  1. drill, gimlet
  2. corkscrew

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “بريمة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “بريمة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بريمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “بريمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar.riː.me/, [barˈriː.me]
  • IPA(key): /bar.riː.ma/, [barˈriː.ma]

Noun

بريمة • (barrīme) f (plural برّيمات (barrīmāt), masculine برّيم (barrīm))

  1. feminine of برّيم (barrīm): talkative

Etymology 2

From Arabic بَرِّيمة (barrīma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar.riː.me/, [barˈriː.me]
  • IPA(key): /bar.riː.ma/, [barˈriː.ma]

Noun

برّيمة • (barrīme) f

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) corkscrew
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